From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750978AbWD3GSp (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Apr 2006 02:18:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750979AbWD3GSp (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Apr 2006 02:18:45 -0400 Received: from pasmtp.tele.dk ([193.162.159.95]:32523 "EHLO pasmtp.tele.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750977AbWD3GSo (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Apr 2006 02:18:44 -0400 Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 08:18:42 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Joshua Hudson Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: World writable tarballs Message-ID: <20060430061842.GA22883@mars.ravnborg.org> References: <1146356286.10953.7.camel@hammer> <200604300148.12462.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 09:59:22PM -0700, Joshua Hudson wrote: > I've got good reasons > for compiling the kernel as root (when in the make, install, reboot, test > loop it's quite a timesaver). Care to explain why it is a timesaver to compile your kernel as root? Other do something like: make && sudo make modules_install && sudo make install Or variants of this. In this way we run only a minimal set as root. Sam